Greenpeace

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News about Greenpeace, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.

Chronology of Coverage

Feb. 22, 2015

Documents obtained by Greenpeace and Climate Investigations Center show that Dr Wei-Hock Soon, scientist who has long been champion of people who deny risks of global warming, has received funding from fossil-fuel industry in exchange for some of his work; documents show that corporate funding was linked to specific papers he completed in exchange for the money, and that he failed to disclose this conflict of interest in most of his scientific papers. MORE

Dec. 13, 2014

Peruvian authorities say activists from Greenpeace damaged archaeologically important site in desert by placing sign promoting renewable energy near Nazca lines, ancient man-made etchings; sign was intended to draw attention of world leaders attending United Nations summit meeting aimed at reaching an agreement to address climate change; Greenpeace's apology is rejected by officials who say damage may be permanent. MORE

Aug. 2, 2014

Greenpeace International reports ship Arctic Sunrise has departed for Netherlands nearly year after Russian authorities seized it during a protest against an oil platform planned to be located within Arctic Circle. MORE

May. 2, 2014

Mar. 19, 2014

Police arrest 57 Greenpeace activists who used truck to break through security barriers and enter nuclear power plant in eastern France; Greenpeace wants immediate shutdown of the plant, which has been operating since 1977. MORE

Jan. 9, 2014

Russia is embroiled in a new dispute with Greenpeace International, having just quieted the furor over its seizure of organization ship in the Arctic; feud is over a Russian fishing trawler accused of poaching in coastal waters off Senegal; Senegal has demanded more than $800,000 in fines, while the Russian government has called for a diplomatic resolution; Russia is blaming Greenpeace for the troubles. MORE

Dec. 26, 2013

Russian investigators have dropped charges against all but one of 30 crew members of a Greenpeace ship, who were accused of hooliganism in connection with a protest at a Russian oil rig in the Arctic. MORE

Dec. 25, 2013

Russia grants pardon to Anthony Perrett, member of the crew of Arctic Sunrise, Greenpeace International ship seized on the open seas in September 2013; amnesty is expected to be extended to rest of the crew, drawing to a close one of the more contentious chapters in the organization’s history. MORE

Dec. 20, 2013

Editorial contends Russian Pres Vladimir Putin's move to decree clemency for Mikhail Khodorkovsky, two members of band Pussy Riot and Greenpeace activists is not the same as acknowledging that these prisoners were improperly incarcerated to begin with; holds amnesties will remain an imperial gesture unless they are followed by a strengthening of the rule of law. MORE

Dec. 19, 2013

Russian Parliament's lower house passes amnesty bill that seems to promise freedom for defendants in some of country's most politically charged cases; two jailed members of the punk protest group Pussy Riot and the 30 Greenpeace demonstrators arrested at an Arctic offshore oil rig appeared to be among those likely to receive amnesty. MORE

Dec. 4, 2013

Arrest and prolonged detention of Greenpeace activists by Russian authorities has cast a light on the capriciousness of the country's legal system; although the 30 activists have been granted bail, the remarkably opaque criminal cases against them are far from over. MORE

Nov. 29, 2013

Russian court grants bail to the last of the 30 Greenpeace International activists arrested after a protest against oil drilling in the Arctic. MORE

Nov. 24, 2013

Peter Willcox, American captain of Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise, is released from Russian prison on bail; relates story of how crew was arrested by Russian commandos while protesting oil drilling in Arctic. MORE

Nov. 20, 2013

Russian judges grant bail to nine more crew members of a Greenpeace International ship who were arrested after a protest against oil drilling in the Arctic. MORE

Nov. 19, 2013

Russian court grants bail to three of 30 crew members of a Greenpeace International ship seized during a protest against oil drilling in the Arctic in September; some see this as a first sign of leniency in an investigation that could continue through the Sochi Olympic Games. MORE

Nov. 13, 2013

Thirty people arrested after a Greenpeace protest at a Russian oil rig in the Arctic are transferred to prisons in St Petersburg, Russia. MORE

Nov. 12, 2013

Russia's prison authorities begin transferring 30 crew members of a Greenpeace International ship from Murmansk to St Petersburg, nearly two months after they were arrested following a protest at an offshore oil rig in the Arctic. MORE

Nov. 7, 2013

Netherlands appeals to international tribunal to order Russia to release ship and 30 crew members of Greenpeace International who were detained while protesting offshore oil exploration in the Arctic. MORE

Nov. 2, 2013

Russia is preparing to transfer 30 crew members of a Greenpeace International ship from a detention center in far northern city of Murmansk to a jail in St Petersburg; reason for moving detainees, held since ship was seized after open-seas protest against oil drilling in the Arctic, is not immediately clear. MORE

Oct. 31, 2013

Russia's vigorous legal response to Greenpeace protest at Arctic oil rig appears to have caught activists off guard and left crew’s families and friends worried that consequences could prove much graver than expected; some 30 demonstrators face criminal charges that could mean years in prison as a result of having grossly underestimated Russia’s readiness to assert its sovereignty in region potentially rich with natural resources. MORE

Oct. 24, 2013

Russian investigators drop piracy charges against crew members of Greenpeace International ship who staged protest against oil exploration in the Arctic Ocean, but say they still face lesser charges of hooliganism. MORE

Oct. 10, 2013

Kumi Naidoo, executive director of Greenpeace International, offers himself to Russian authorities in hopes of securing the release on bail of Greenpeace activists who are being held by Russia on piracy charges because of their protest on an Arctic oil rig. MORE

Oct. 5, 2013

Dutch Foreign Min Frans Timmermans says the Netherlands intends to press case against Russia in the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea for seizing Greenpeace International ship, which was sailing in Arctic under a Dutch flag; Russian prosecutors have filed piracy charges against ship's crew. MORE

Oct. 4, 2013

Russian prosecutors are pressing charges of piracy against entire crew of Greenpeace International ship the Arctic Sunrise; authorities seized vessel in September during protest in which crew members scaled sides of Russian oil platform in Arctic. MORE

Oct. 3, 2013

Russian prosecutors, defying complaints from international human rights and environmental groups, as well as the apparent wishes of Pres Vladimir Putin, bring piracy charges against 13 Greenpeace activists and a journalist for trying to scale an oil platform in the Arctic. MORE

Sep. 27, 2013

Russian court orders 22 Greenpeace activists, including an American ship captain and a photographer accompanying the group, jailed for two months while authorities investigate whether protest at offshore rig in the Arctic was an act of piracy. MORE

Sep. 26, 2013

Russia's Pres Vladimir V Putin says Russian authorities were justified in seizing a Greenpeace International ship at an offshore oil platform in the Arctic, but questions whether the activities of the ship's crew warrant piracy charges that Russian authorities say they will pursue. MORE

Sep. 25, 2013

Russia opens piracy investigation against Greenpeace members who scaled offshore oil platform in Arctic, signaling that authorities intend to act decisively to thwart more protests against Russia's ambitious plans to expand energy exploration in the region. MORE

Sep. 21, 2013

Russia's Federal Security Service announces that it has seized a Greenpeace International ship and its crew after a series of protests at an offshore oil rig in the Arctic Ocean and that it will tow ship to port in Murmansk to conduct an investigation. MORE

Sep. 20, 2013

Russian Coast Guard boards Greenpeace ship that was circling an Arctic oil platform; Greenpeace International is protesting environmental risks posed by increased efforts to tap oil and natural gas reserves in the Arctic. MORE

Sep. 19, 2013

Russian border guards detain two activists from environmentalist group Greenpeace after they boarded an oil rig to protest drilling in the Arctic by a state gas company. MORE

Jul. 16, 2013

Greenpeace activists occupy a French nuclear power plant site; media stunt embarrasses the government, which is intent on demonstrating that France’s reliance on nuclear power is safe. MORE

Jun. 1, 2013

ForestEthics and Greenpeace have filed complaint with Federal Trade Commission claiming that Sustainable Forestry Initiative, organization that certifies products as 'green,' is front group for timber industry and violates agency's new standards for such claims; FTC has been trying to police proliferating claims that products are 'green' or 'environmentally friendly'. MORE

Aug. 25, 2012

Team of marine conservation activists from Greenpeace climb side of Russian oil-drilling platform in the Arctic Ocean to protest Gazprom's drilling efforts; workers spray cold water on them, forcing the protesters to leave after 15 hours. MORE

Apr. 24, 2012

Letter from former EPA administrator Christine Todd Whitman responds to April 18 article on a Greenpeace report concerning the dangers of nuclear and coal power. MORE

Apr. 18, 2012

Greenpeace report says that the infrastructure that supports the Internet, online commerce and nearly all corporate data services is increasingly moving facilities to regions where the main sources of energy are coal and nuclear power in a relentless drive for cheap energy prices; singles out Apple as one of the movement's leaders in the use of nonrenewable sources. MORE

Dec. 7, 2011

Greenpeace International executive director Kumi Naidoo has sought to win companies' support for his broad climate change and social justice agenda since he was named the head of the organization in 2009, even as his group tries to guard its outside-the-lines radical status; his approach is exemplified by his attending meetings at the United Nations climate change conference in Durban, South Africa, while simultaneously organizing protests against it. MORE

Dec. 6, 2011

Activists from the environmental group Greenpeace infiltrate two nuclear power plants in France and breach or try to breach security at least two other nuclear sites; Greenpeace calls security measures at plants 'insufficient' and calls for French leaders to shut down country's 58 nuclear reactors. MORE

Newly released documents show the extent of the links between corporate interests and the published work of Wei-Hock Soon, a Smithsonian-affiliated scientist who has tried to debunk the consensus about global warming.

A Greenpeace India activist was stopped from boarding a flight to Britain in January, where she was scheduled to brief members of Parliament on the effect of mining on indigenous communities in central India.

December 14, 2014, Sunday

A sign urging environmental action during a United Nations summit meeting on climate change was placed near a 1,000-year-old geoglyph that is a cultural treasure in Peru. Officials are outraged over the trespassing and the disturbance of the ancient...